Walt Bushey?

So...about 10 min ago I was sitting on my couch watching "Penn and Teller Tell a Lie" and they open with a story about the plausibility of blowing up a car with gunfire. They introduce a guy by the name of Walt Bushey and say that he is a "Special Op's Veteran". Below the guys face they flash his name and title for a split second (thank God for DVR) and his byline is "Texas Police Officer, Former ARROW Ops Specialist." Walt is shown striding across the desert in tactical garb carrying an M4 and a pistol in a thigh holster. Walt then proceeds to shoot up a car with a Barrett .50 and various other weapons.

My first google search turns up a web page for the Katsujin Budokai. One of the sites sub menus is for Law Enforcement. That link takes you to their Tactical Solutions Group. Which offers:

Tactical Solutions group is a board of Professional Law Enforcement Defensive Tactics, SWAT , Military and Traditional Martial Art Instructors specializing in utilizing, modifying and adapting traditional martial arts for modern CQB and defensive tactics use.

Now Im not really up on USAF Spec Ops units beyond ParaRescue, Combat Controllers and Weather Technicians (yes really..weather techs. They go behind enemy lines to evaluate weather conditions for combat air ops). I do not recall ever hearing of "ARROW Ops". I have heard of the term "Broken Arrow" in regards to nuclear weapons loss/recovery but know of no Spec Ops unit called "ARROW".

So far I have only been able to find one reference to Bushey having been a Para Rescue Trooper over at Socnet.com. If true I wonder why he didn't list that as an accomplishment and "ARROW Op's" as his television byline??

He is in fact a Law Officer

Walt Bushey is a officer of the law. He works for the Lubbock County Detention Center and is a deputized officer who is also on the many of the special tactical programs. I have trained a little under him but worked with him at the LCDC.

Walt Bushey is a officer of the law. He works for the Lubbock County Detention Center and is a deputized officer who is also on the many of the special tactical programs. I have trained a little under him but worked with him at the LCDC.

The Television show titled him a "Police Officer". But perhaps that was an error on the productions part. The "ARROW Ops Specialist" thing is a head scratchier though. What was his special operations experience? If you know.

Not to insult any CO's, they do a tough and thankless job that I would not take, but I tend to see some of them camouflage their corrections job by saying that they are in "Law Enforcement". I know MANY corrections officers and when asked what they do they say straight up "Im a corrections officer". Around here at least those who say "I'm in Law Enforcement" like to try and pass themselves off as cops.

Tactical units in Jails/Prisons have different training, different operational requirements and simply a different Job from Police Officers. Yet there are quite a few of them who try to parley that "tactical" experience into $$$$ via books, videos, seminars, etc. by giving the impression that they were SWAT, Special Operations, and so on.

Not that I'm accusing Mr. Bushey of that though. Different areas have different ways and expressions. However, I do find the lack of a clear explanation of what his Law Enforcement (or military) experience is a bit odd. The LEO's in his group are quite clear with their LE resumes.

Walt Bushey is a officer of the law. He works for the Lubbock County Detention Center and is a deputized officer who is also on the many of the special tactical programs. I have trained a little under him but worked with him at the LCDC.

I know that he is a member of the Lubbock Sheriff's Department and may only be a Jailer with ties to other sections of the organization through his Tactical Solutions Group that he runs as well as being a member of the Detention Response Team which handle the most unruly prisoners and responds to riots and so forth. Before that can happen he had to complete training at either Lubbock Co. Sheriff's Academy or South Plains Association of Government LEA are the two most popular TCLEOSE training academies used by the Sheriff Office. His work involves training with the Tactical Solutions Group which also includes Captain Malcolm Chambliss as well as a number of other officers and deputies. The fact that he was label as a "Texas Police Office" was not correct as we have a completely separate PD here and as far as what the "ARROW Ops" affiliation might be I'm uncertain. I have trained with this man a few times long before I ever worked with him at the new Detention Center which is just the location he is stationed at while there are numerous positions that the sheriffs here fill. i.e. SWAT, Riot Control, Hostage Negotiation, etc.

Someone at work directed me to this thread. I know this man very well, and work with him at the Lubbock County Sheriff's Office. He is a TCLEOSE certified Peace Officer and has been deputized. It is common in a county jail to have both jailers and peace officers working in the detention center. I myself was a jailer for 2 years before being sworn in as Peace Officer in August, and I still work in the detention center. At the time this video was filmed Mr. Bushey was a New Deal Police officer. We appreciate you looking out for the integrity of our agency and all, but really, we got this. Thorough background investigations are done in our hiring process.